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A French teacher at Cypress Bay High school in Weston will serve a five day suspension without pay for referring to a Muslim student multiple times as "Taliban" in school. The School Board approved the suspension without discussion on Tuesday, despite ongoing protests from the student's father and other community members who wanted tougher disciplinary measures. Youssef Wardani, father of the 14-year-old student, called the decision "disgusting.' He said he was working with the Council on American–Islamic Relations to pursue some sort of legal action against the district. "I'll keep sitting in their face until they recognize what they've...

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A French teacher at Cypress Bay High school in Weston will serve a five day suspension without pay for referring to a Muslim student multiple times as "Taliban" in school.
The School Board approved the suspension without discussion on...

Five days.
That's how many days a South Florida French teacher was suspended for calling a student "Taliban."
Repeatedly.
The punishment should be much worse. Forcing the teacher to write "I shall not call students names" a...

About a dozen protesters gathered outside the Broward School Board building in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday to demand justice for a student whose teacher allegedly called him a "rag head Taliban."Youssef Wardani said a French teacher at...

Let’s get this down to the basics.
If a teacher called a black student by a derogatory, racial term, would that teacher face harsh punishment?
If the student was Jewish and was referred to by a derogatory term by a teacher, would that teacher be in...

A Weston parent urged the Broward School Board on Tuesday to fire a teacher he claims called his son a "rag-head Taliban."Youssef Wardani said Maria Valdes, who teaches French at Cypress Bay in Weston, called his 14-year-old son a Taliban four...

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On Sept. 11, 2001 Islamic fundamentalism became a permanent and unwanted fixture in our lives. We thought with the death of Osama bin Laden and our military withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan, we would return to the way things were on Sept. 10, 2001....

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As a Sun Sentinel crime reporter, I've ventured into sketchy neighborhoods, seen dead bodies, witnessed Death Row executions.
But I never could imagine my work putting my life at risk.
Never has my newsroom been bombed, shot at, lobbed with grenades....

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Eight men kneeled in prayers led by their imam, Hafiz Muhammed Sher Ali Khan, when a loud pounding shook the locked door of the mosque, a modest house behind a green fence in a residential neighborhood in west Miami-Dade County. It was just after 6...

Federal law enforcement agents arrested three South Florida residents early Saturday on charges that they helped funnel money to Taliban terrorists in Pakistan.
The money they collected, prosecutors said, was intended to be used to buy guns, support...

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Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl says he was tortured repeatedly in the five years he was held captive by the Taliban: beaten with a copper cable, chained, held in a cage and threatened with execution after trying to escape.
Bergdahl described his captivity in...